I was heavily into reinforcement learning around the turn of the century, and at the time, "Reinforcement Learning - An introduction" (Barto and Sutton) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reinforcement-learning was an absolute goldmine for me getting started. I think parts of it are online somewhere including all their pseudocode and solutions.
Not sure about the inspiring talks or whatnot, but I've been writing clojure/clojurescript (reagent, re-frame et al.) professionally for a couple of years and there's nothing I can't find that I need in a project. With simple js interoperability, native use of js/react components in reagent and ease of wrapping any vanilla js library, there really is nothing you can't do with clojurescript. You should take a closer look!
That would be Ed Stafford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Stafford . He has many TV series where he survives starting with nothing (other than camera gear) and some other shows. Probably the most entertaining, down-to-earth and genuine survivalists on tv.
> That aside, you have to work a little bit harder to discern religious practices that are rooted in activities that are observably and directly beneficial to individuals and society (meditation, compassion)
Leaving meditation out of this, I think the religious practices you're implying were basic human moral practices adopted _by_ religion, not the other way around.
> I think many of us have deployed this graph in our own lives. I watch movies this way - watch more movies made by a director I like. Then watch movies by the people this director likes. Its a wonderful exploration.
I use https://www.metal-archives.com in this manner. The number of dimensions on which you can find connections and similarities makes finding new music a joy. A version of IMDB based upon the ideas in MA is what you seek.
I've been struggling all week with issues from nyc3 spaces (object storage). I haven't been able to get any explanation or confirmation of my issues although I have submitted a lot of information at each of their requests.
I hope these problems are temporary and the reliability improves very soon because I feel like I've wasted this week beta testing a flaky product. I might be small-fry but I need to spend my time wisely.
Having said that, I've got my fingers crossed because this sure as hell beats the pricing of AWS S3 and It'd be nice to host app and objects under the same umbrella.
> However, achieving such a milestone will require you to (on an ongoing basis) look deeply inwards, answer fundamental questions about yourself, and change your life.
> most people haven't even figured out what they want and so they default to mainstream consumerism
Not everyone defaults to mainstream consumerism. Some of us just don't understand and cannot comprehend why others are such consumers. Keeping up with the Joneses? Why?
For my family at least, we require no deep inward analysis, fundamental questions about ourselves or changing of our lives. To sum up: this is just how we are.
> i'm sure there are some people are responsible enough to never incur a finance charge from a credit card by always paying their monthly balance. I've never actually met one of those people.
Hi, I'm one of those people. Nice to meet you!
We use our (no fee) credit card for everything we can and pay it off at the end of the month. Initially we did this to allow as much of our own money, for the longest possible time to sit in our mortgage. We've never paid a cent in charges, fees or penalties.
You can save incredible amounts over the years just by shifting the time at which your money sits where.
It appears what they're alluding to is this part:
> the appointments conflict just when b > c and a > d.
which I first understood to be a conversational statement rather than a statement of logic (which I assume GP is referring to), in which case it should be (b > c or a > d).